New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation
The formation of Subantarctic Mode Water SAMW in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in the global oceanic uptake and storage of anthropogenic heat and carbon. Wintertime ocean surface heat loss is a dominant driver of Subantarctic Mode Water formation and variability, but wintertime air-sea flux ob...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsta.2022.0066 2024-06-02T08:14:39+00:00 New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation Tamsitt, V. National Science Foundation Climate Program Office 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0066 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2022.0066 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsta.2022.0066 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences volume 381, issue 2249 ISSN 1364-503X 1471-2962 journal-article 2023 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0066 2024-05-07T14:16:39Z The formation of Subantarctic Mode Water SAMW in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in the global oceanic uptake and storage of anthropogenic heat and carbon. Wintertime ocean surface heat loss is a dominant driver of Subantarctic Mode Water formation and variability, but wintertime air-sea flux observations in the Southern Ocean are extremely sparse. Recent advances in our understanding of the role of air-sea fluxes in Subantarctic Mode Water Formation from novel ocean observations are summarized here, particularly the role of synoptic atmospheric extreme events, and the drivers of interannual variations in SAMW. These advances in understanding have important implications for variability in Southern Ocean heat and carbon uptake, and can inform future Southern Ocean observing system design. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean: the state of the art and future priorities’. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean The Royal Society Southern Ocean Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 381 2249 |
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The formation of Subantarctic Mode Water SAMW in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in the global oceanic uptake and storage of anthropogenic heat and carbon. Wintertime ocean surface heat loss is a dominant driver of Subantarctic Mode Water formation and variability, but wintertime air-sea flux observations in the Southern Ocean are extremely sparse. Recent advances in our understanding of the role of air-sea fluxes in Subantarctic Mode Water Formation from novel ocean observations are summarized here, particularly the role of synoptic atmospheric extreme events, and the drivers of interannual variations in SAMW. These advances in understanding have important implications for variability in Southern Ocean heat and carbon uptake, and can inform future Southern Ocean observing system design. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean: the state of the art and future priorities’. |
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New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation |
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New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation |
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